World History Timeline

Ancient Greece & Rome

1750-1500 BC Minoan Civilization
1400 BC Minoan Civilazation Disappears
1400-1200 BC Mycenae Civilazation
1250-1240 Trojan War
800 Italians Migrate to Italy
750 Homer
594 Solon's Reforms
546 Pisistratus Siezed Power
509 Romans setup Republic
509 Romans kick out their Eutruscan King
509-133 Patrician and Plebian system Starts
507 Cleisthnes
500 Persian wars
499 Greeks Rebel from Persian Rule
490 The Battle of Marathon
476 Fall of Western Roman Empire
460-429 The Age of Pericles (The Golden Age)
450 Plebians Inscribe The Twelve Tables
431 Peloponnesian War
400 Hippocrates studied Illnesses and created the "Docters Oath"
359 Philip gains the thrown of Macedonia
338 Philip takes control of all Greece
334 Alexander crosses the Dardenelles
331 Alexander takes Babylon
331 Alexander takes Persia
323 Alexander dies
270 Rome occupied all of Italy.
264 Punic Wars Begin
218 Hannibal Marches Across the Pyrenes
133 Tiberius was elected a tribune.
63 Romans had conquered Palestine.
59 Caesar set out with his army to make new conquests.
44 Fortune-teller warned Caesar to "Beware the Ides of March."
44 March 15 Caesar stabed to death.
31B.C. - A.D. 14 Caesar's republic falls under Augustus.
31B.C. - A.D. 14 Virgil rights the Aenied
4BC Jesus is born
27 Pax Romana begins
66 Roman forces captured Jerusalem and destroyed the Jewish temple.
96-180 AD Roman empire benefited from a series of "good emperors."
135 AD Romans Expel Jews from Palestine
284 empperor Diocletian set out to restore order.
312 Constantine gained the throne.
329 AD Christianity becomes religion of Roman Empire
410 the Visigoth general Alaric overran Italy and plundered Rome.
434 Attila embarkes on a savage campaign of conquest across Europe.
453 Atilla died
476 Odoacer ousted the emperor in Rome.

Middle Ages


400-700 Germanic tribes carve up Western Europe into small kingdoms
481 Clovis becomes king of France
500-1500 Duration of the Middle Ages
530 Benedict founded Monte Cassino
600 Gregory the Great wrote about the Lombards' atttack
632 Islam emerges in Arabia
732 Charles Martel leads warriors in the defeat of a Muslim army during the battle of Tours
800 Charles the Great builds empire and is declared emperor
800 Peasantsr
800 Use of iron plows
800's Three feild System and other new farming technologies
800 Pope crowns Charlemagne emporer
814 Charles the Great dies
843 Treaty of Verdun
896 Magyars settle
897 Charters
897 Traders need capital
897 Merchant Guilds form
900's Abbot Berno
900's Feudal system develops- Lords, Vassels, Fief's, Serf's and Knights
900's Chivalry and Troubador's
900's Manor Economy
1000 Leif Erikson sets up Viking colony
1000 Middle class
1000 middle class made profits from usury or lending money at interest.
1000-1300 Population Grows in Europe
1050-1450 High Middle Ages
1050's Seljuk Turks invade Byzantine empire
1050's The Church takes power - Tithing, Monks, Nuns, excommunication, Clergy, etc
1055 Nobles and Monarchs
1071 Seljuks attack Holy Land
1073 Gregory VII extended the Cluniac reforms throughout the entire Church
1076 Henry IV excommunicated
1077 Henery's Excommunication is lefted and he regains the thrown
1085 Recapture of Toledo
1086 William takes control of England
1095 Crusade to free the Holy Land
1096 First Crusade
1099 Christian knights captured Jerusalem
1100 Royal rulers and nobles owned stone castles with high walls, towers, and drawbridges over wide moats.
1100's Fighting decreases, tournaments and mock battles become the fashion
1100's Scholasticism
1122 Concordat of Worms
1127 Count William inherits Flanders
1140 Abbot Suger
1147 Hildegard founded convent
1187 Salah al-Din takes Jerusalem
1198 Innocent III took office
1150's Early Jurries form
1162 Becket appointed archbishop
1200's Development of the Paralament
1200's Concept of theology
1200's Mongol armies conquer China and Asia
1204 Crusaders defeat Byzantine trad rivals
1209 Crusade in southern France
1215 Magna Carta
1226 Louis IX
1270 The Church (Popes) and Royalty (Emporers) Clashed
1271 Marco Polo sets out for China
1291 Acre captured
1296 Philip IV
1300 Tenant Farmers in Western Europe
1309 Pope Clement V
1337 Edward III
1337-1453 Hundred Years' War
1346 Crecy
1347 Black Death in Italy
1356 Poitiers
1378 Reformers elect their own pope for Rome
1400's Heavy restrictions placed on women's activities
1400's New age of exploration
1415 Agincourt
1415 Hus burned at the stake
1429 Joan of Arc
1469 Ferdinand and Isabella marry
1492 Reconquista

Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment


Mid 1300's Renassance begins in Italy
1304-1374 Francesco Petrarch
1434 Medici gains control of Florentine government
1450 Perspective
1450-1750 Tens of thousands killed in the Witch Hunts
1452 Leoneardo da Vinci
1456 Gutenberg Bible printed
Mid 1400's Northern Renaissance begins
1492 Lorenzo a generous patron, or financial supporter, of the arts died
1492 Columbus sails to America
1492 Spain expelles all Jews
1494 Albrecht Dürer
Late 1400's Indulgence in exchange for a monitary gift to the church
1516 Jews forced to live in a seperate corner of Venice, called the Ghetto
1517 Luther's 95 Theses
1521 Pope Excommunicated Luther
1524 Peasans in Germany Revolt - Serfdom Ends
1527 Henry VIII asked the pope to annul his marriage
1530-1540's Charles V tries to force Protestants back in to the Catholic church
1530 Protestant religion
1534 Act of Supremacy Passed
1536 John Calvin published Intitutes of the Christian Religion
1534-1540's Henry closes all churchs and starts the Church of England
1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) forms to combat Heresy and amd spread Catholisism
1536-1541 Calvin spreads the idea of Predestination
1541 Calvin's Geneva - Theocracy starts
1545 Council of Trent
1547 Henery dies - 10 year old son, Edward VI takes the throne
1550 Jews Migrate from England
Mid 1500's Scientific Revolution Begins
1500's Humanism
1500-1600's Breakthroughs in Medicine and Chemistry
1554 Elizabeth arrested
1555 Elizabeth released
1558 Mary dies - Elizabeth become queen
1543 Heliocentric Theory
1543 Andreas Vesalius oublished On the Structure of the Human Body
Late 1500's Calvinism Spreads - John Knox end rebelions from other religions
Late 1500's Tycho Brahe supports Copernicus's Heliocentric Theory
Early 1600's Scientific Method
Early 1600's William Hnenery decribed the circulation of blood
1600's Robert Boyle
1600's John Locke and Thomas Hobbes set ideas for Enligtenment
1600's Natural Rights
1600-1700's baroque
1663 Galileo brought to trial before the Inquisition
1687 Newton explains gravity
1687 Newton published Mathmatical Principles of Natural Philosophy explaining the law of gravity
1692 Salem, Massachusetts- The Salam with trials, 20 people executed as witches
Late 1600's constitional govt.
1600's Salon
1700's Peter the Great modernizes Russia
1700's natural laws
1707 England and Scotland Unite
1715-1800's American Revolution
1719 Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
1740-1786 enlightened despot
1748 Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws
1751-1789 Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia is printed
1762 Rousseau's Social Contract
1781 Josheph II of Austria grants religious toleration
1783 Treaty of Paris ends American Revolution
Late 1700's physiocrat
Late 1700's free market
Late 1700's laissez faire

Age of Revolutions (French Rev)
1715-1774 King Louis XV Rules
1780's Bad harvests
May 1788 Louis XVI summons the Estates General (in Versailles) for the first time in 175 Years
July 1788 Disastrous Harvest leave everyone hungry
July 14, 1788 Storming of the Bastille
August 4, 1789 The National Assembly ends all Special Privlages - Feudalism is Ended!!
October 15, 1789 Women Marc on Versailles
1789 The Declaration of the Rights of Man
1789-1791 National Assemably meets
1789 bourgeoisie want new rights
1789 France starts deficit spending
1789 Revoltion Begins
1790 The chuch comes under state control
June 1791 King Louis XVI flees
August 1791 Decloration of Pilnitz - Austria and Prussia will protect the French Monarchy
1791 The Constitution of 1791
1791 Sans-Culottes push for revolution
1791 emigre flee france
April 1792 The Legislative Assembaly declares war
1792 Clemons von Metternich, Alexander I, and Robert Castlereagh attend the Congress of Vienna
1792 suffrage exended to all male citizens
1792-1794 Reign of Terror
1793 Reign of Terror Begins
January 1793 The king and Queen are executed as traitors
1793 The convention created the Commity for Public Saftey
1793 Rosbespierre leads the commity for public saftey
1793 The National Convention bans all Wemon Revolutionary Clubs and declares that they are not capable of Political Rights
1793 Olympe de Gouges fights for Women's rights
1793 Jacques Louis David imortalized stirrings like the Tennis Court Oath
1795 Constitution of 1795 sets up a 5 man Directory and a two house legislature
1789 Convention creates another Constitution
1795-1799 The Directory Meets
1799-1815 The age of Napoleon
1799 Napoleon overthrows the directory
1799 War creates national pride in France
1799 Napolean helds a plebiscite
1800's Anrchists turn to violence
1801 Napoleon issues the Concordat of 1801
1801-1825 Alexander I
1802 Napoleon names himself consul for life
1803 America purchases Louisiana Territory
1804 Napoleon becomes Emperor
1804-1814 Napoleon furthers his reputation on the battle feild
1805 Napoleon looses the battle of Trafalgar
1806 Holy Roman Empire abolished
1807-1812 Rhine Confederation
1808 Napoleon replaces the king of spain with his brother
1808 Spanish peoples use uerilla Warfare
1812 Napoloen invades Russia
1812 British blockade European ports
1813 Napolean abdicated the thrown
1814-1815 Congress of Vienna
1815 Napoloen defeated at Waterloo
1817 Serbia autonomy
1820-1848 Nationalist revolts in Austria
1821 Death of Napoleon
1830's Zollverein
1831 Giuseppe Mazzini founds Young Italy
1840's Hapsburg industrial life
1848 Frankfurt Assembly demands German political unity
1848 Italian nationalist movement
1849 Mazzini sets up revolutionary republic in Rome
1850's-1860's German Industrial boom
1852 Count Camillo Cavour becomes prime minister of Italy
1855 Crimean War
1855 Alexander II
1858 Cavour and Napoleon negotiation
1859 Austria defeated by France and Sardinia
1861 Victor Emmanuel II
1861 Serfs emancipated
1862 Otto von Bismarck
1862-1890 Otto von Bismarck dominates European affairs
1864 Alliance of Prussia and Austria
1866 Bismarck attacks Austria
1866 End of Austro-Prussian War
1870 Franco-Prussian War
1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi marches to Sicily for freedom
1861 Alexander II issues a royal decry emancipating all serfs
1860's Zemstovos manage lower level goverment
1871 Second Reich
1871 Krupp
1890's German retirement benefits
1890 William II asks Bismarck to resign
1905 Russian Revolution
1912 Democratic majority in the Reichstag
1914 World War I begins

Industrialization

1500's Enclosure movement
1600-1700's Agricultural revolution
1700's Population Explodes
1700's Factory movement
1700's British economy prospers due to overseas trade
1709 Darby uses coal to smelt iron
1712 Thomas Newcomen develops the steam engine
1750's Urbanization
1750-1850 romanticism/ painting
Mid 1700's John Wesley foundes the Methodist Church
1760 Watt improves the steam engine
1776 Smith's Wealth of Nations
1779 Abraham Darby III made he worlds first Iron Bridge
1792-1804 First Republic
1780's Luddites
1780 Tupac Amaru revolt
1791 Slave revolt in Haiti
1798 Enslaved Haitians freed
1798 "Essay on the Principle of Population"
1800 Owen begins social reforms at New Lanark
1800 Utilitarianism
Early 1800's Middle Class buisness men follow laissez faire economics
1800's Jeremy Bentham preaches utilitarianism
1800's Many companys become corporations to get more capital
1804 Haiti declares independence
1807 Industrial Revolution spreads to Belgium
1807 William Cockerill manufactures spinning machines
1808 Napoleon invades Spain
1810 Mexican Revolution
1815 Clashing ideologies
1816 Argentina freed from Spain
1817 Autonomy in Serbia
1819 Rally in Manchester
1820 Haiti becomes a republic
1820 Spanish Constitution
1821 Greek Revolt
1821 Bolivar "The Liberator"
1822 Dom Pedro becomes emperor of Brazil
1824 End of Latin American wars for independence
1824 Death of Louis XVIII
1825 Latin America free from colonial rule
1830 Charles X suspends legislator
1830 Liverpool-Manchester Railroad opens
1830 Belgium fights for independence
1830 Polish revolt
1830 Death of Bolivar
1831 Belgium becomes independent
1840 Karl Marx argues his theory of the "haves" and the "have nots"
1840's Joseph Lister uges surgeons to use antiseptics.
1842 Anesthesia first used in surgery
1842 Kershaw testimony
1848 The Communist Manifesto
1848 Revolutions throughout Europe
1849 Frankfurt Assembly dissolved
1850's Alfred Nobe makes dyamitel
1850's Most country villages are industrialized
1852 Napoleon appoints himself emperor
1859 On the Orgin of the Species
1870's Impressionist painting developed
1870's Factories use assembly lines
1889 Brazil becomes a republic
Late 1800's Social Darwinism starts
Late 1800's women's suffrage movement
1903 Wright Brothers invent airplane


Imperialism

1770's James Cook claims Australia for Britian
1791 British pass the Canada Act
1793 British request increase in trade rights
1800's European imperialist take over other countries
1805 Muhammad Ali named governor of Egypt
1820's President James Monroe issues the Monroe Doctrine protecting the Americas from colonization
1823 United States issues Monroe Doctrine
1837 Upper Canada Revolts
1830's British sell opium to Chinese
1839 Chinese warships clash with British merchants
1839 The Durham report reumites upper and lower Canada
1840 Britain annexes New Zealand
1840 Canada passes Act of Union
1842 Treaty of Nanjing
1847 Liberia becomes independant state
Mid 1800's Western powers win rights from China
1850's Sepoy rebellion
1850-1864 Taiping Rebellion
1853 US sends naval force to make Japan to open it's ports for trade
1853-1868 Nien Rebellion
1855 Benito Juarez seizes power and starts the La Reforma to reform Mexico
1857 Sepoy rebelion breaks out
1860's "Self-strengthening movement"
1860's French invade Vietnam
1867 British N. America Act
1868 Meiji restoration in Japan begins
1868 Japan's modernization
1868-1910 Chulalonghorn rule
1871 Members of Meiji government learn Western ideas
1876 Japan forces Korea to open it's ports to Japanese trade
1878 US settle "unequal treaty" with Samoa
1880 Britain annexes Burma
1884 Berlin Confrence Meets
1885 Indian National Congress
1889 Meiji constitution
1890's The Ottoman empire triggers a brutal Genicide on Aremenians
1890's Japan forces Western powers to revise unequal treaties
1890's Europeans controlled most of Southeast Asia
1893 Queen Liliukalani tries to remove foreign powers in Hawaii
1894 Japan and China go to war
1898 Philippines declare independence from Spain
1898 Hawaii annexed by US
1898 War between US and Spain over Cuba
1898 Japanese forbidden any political participation
1898 Guang Xu launches Hundred Days of Reform
1899 Righteous Harmonious Fists
1899-1901 Filipinos battle American forces
Late 1800's Memelik II defeats the Italians in Ethiopia
Late 1800- Early 1900's Colonies accept "advice" from their dominators
Late 1800- Early 1900's Sphere of influence
Early 1900's Revolutionary Alliance
Early 1900's US intervention in Latin America
1900 Boxers attack foreign communities in in China
1905 Treaty of Portsmouth
1907 Australia and New Zealand independence
1908 Ci Xi dies
1910 Japan annexes Korea
1911 Sun Yixian becomes President of the Chinese Republic
1914 Panama Canal opens
1919 Nonviolent protest against Japan

World War I


Late 1800's Rise in Militerism
Late 1800-Early 1900's Alfred Nobel sets up the Nobel peace prize for those who further peace
1872 Germany joins the Austria-Hungary and Russia alliance
1899 First Universal Peace Conference
1904 France and Britaim sign an entente cordiale
1912 Balkan states attack Turkey
1912 Serbia frees itself from Turkey
June 1914 Austria sends an ultamatum to Serbia
June 1914 Austria mobilizes their troops
June 1914 Britian and Italy remain nutral
June 1914 Archduke Ferdinand and his wife are murdered
1914 WW1 Starts
1914 Use of Trench Warfare, Machine Guns, Airplanes in war
1914 Ottoman Empire joins Central Powers
1915 Sinking of the Lusitania
1915 Bulgaria joins Central Powers
January 1916 Allies withdraw from Dardanelles
1916 Battle of Verdun
1916 Edith Cavell runs red cross and gets shot as a spy
February 1917 Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare
March 1917 Bread riots in St. Petersberg turn into revolution
1917 Britain government intercepts an anti-American message from Germany to Mexico
1917 United states enters the war
1917 Countries use propaganda to gain support for the war
1918 Trat of Brest-Litovsk; armistice ends war
November 11, 1918 German Goverment signs armistice
1918 Allied demand reparations for war
1918 Influeza epidemic kills over 20 million people
June 1919 verstilles peace confrence
1919 Paris Peace Conference
1919 Treaties create a system of mandates
1919 Georges Clemenceau wants a weaker Germany
1919 Wilson's Fourteen Points Points
1919 Germany forced to sign the treaty


Russian Revolution

1882 Germany forms a Triple Alliance
Early 1900's Joseph Djugashvili joins the Bolshevik underground as givin the name Stalin, meaning Man of Steal
1905 Bertha Von Sutner wins the Nobel Peace Prize
1914 Gavrillo Princip joins the "Black Hand"
1914 Francis Ferdinand assasinated by the black hand in Sarajevo
1915 Soldiers lack ammunition, rifles, andmedical care
1916 Rasputin influences Russia
December 1916 Prince Yussoupov has Rasputin killed
1917 socialist revolution starts
1917 Nicholas II removed from power
1917 Bolsheviks takes over Russia
1917 Lenin and Trostky take over
1917 Bolshevik Revolution
March 1917 Cities setup Soviets
1918 Anna Akhmatova forced to write poetry in seceret
1918 Osip Mandelstam is imprsioned, tourced and exciled
1920 Mikhail Sholokhov writes of te civil war
1921 Lenin adopts New Economy Policy
1922 Communists produce constitution
1924 Lenin dies
1928 Stalin proposes first five-year plan
1928 The Soviet Union sets up command economy
1928 Stalin destroys the kulaks
1929 Peants forced to give up land and live/work on collectives
1930's USSR becomes a totalitarian state
1930's Artists are forced to use socialist realism style
1930's Soviet women work in medicine field
1934-1938 Great Purge
1936-1938 Stalin's "show trials"
1941 Germany invades Soviet Union
1953 Stalin dies
Age of Totalitarianism

1889 Hitler is born
Early 1900's Marie Curie discovers Radioactivity
Early 1900's Frank Lloyd Wright
Early 1900's Pablo Picasso creates Cubism
1900's Discontent throughout Mexico
1905 Albert Einstein advances his theory of relativity
1910 Francisco Madero demands free elections
1910-1940 South Africa uses apartheid
1910-1920 Mexican revolutions sweep through Mexico
1911 Porfirio Diaz resigns
1912 Pancho Villa wins the the support of Mexican peasants
1914 US invades Vera Cruz
1916 US invades Mexico
1917 Venustiano Carranza elected President of Mexico
1917 Mexico adopts constitution
1917 Mexico's new constitution allows for Nationalization
May 4, 1919 Chinese students start the May Fourth Movement
1919 Flapper is "Queen of Jazz"
1920 Japan's economy slows to mere trickle
1920's Pan-Africanism grows
1920's Anti-American feelings grow in Latin America
1920's Virginia Woolf use the "stream of consciousness" technique
1920-30's The term Fascism is coined
1923 Ataturk begins modernizing Turkey
1923 Adolph Hitler attempts to take control of Germany, but fails
1923 Hitler writes Mein Kampf, meaning My Strugle
1925 Mussolini rules Italy
1926 3 Million British workers go on general strike
1926 Joseph Pilsudski becomes dictator of Poland
1926 Jiang Jieshi marches on Northern China. He crushes local warlords and takes over Beijing
1926-1989 Hirohito rules Japan
1928 Kellog-Briand Pact
1929 Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI)
1930 Gandhi leads Salt March
1930's Great Depression spreads around the world
1933 Hitler becomes chancelor of Germany
1934 Mao Zedong leads Long March
1936 Leon Blum rules France
1937 Japan invades China
1938 Mexican government nationalizes foreign oil holdings
1929 The Great Depression starts
1930's Muhammad Ali Jinrah supports a Paistani state
1930's Franklin D. Roosevelt addopts the Good Neighbor Policy
Nov 9/10, 1938 Kristallnacht - Night of the broken Glass
World War II

1919 Italy insists that Rhineland is demilitarized
1920's Spain moves from Monarchy to Republic
1931 Japan seized Manchuria
1935 Italy invades Ethiopia
1935 Haile Selassie, the king of Ethioia, appealed for the Leage of Nations for help with Italy's attacks
Mid 1930's US passes acts forbiding US to sell weapons or giving loans to waring nations. Also prevented US citizens from traveling on their ships.
1936 Italy concured by Ethiopia
1936 Germany sends troops into Rhineland
1936 Francisco Franco leads the revolt that starts Spain's Civil War
1936 Spain starts civil war
1937 Japan's army has overran most of eastern China by now
April 1937 German Bombers deastroy a market in Spain, the bombing is folllowed by mancheine guns
1938 Hitlor takes over Austria
1938 British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlin, accheives "peace for our time"
1939 Germany invades Poland, WWII Begins
1939 Nazi forces storm into Poland revealing Hitler's blitzkrieg
March 1939 Hitler annexes the rest of Czechoslovakia
Late 1930's Pablo Picasso paints Guernica
1940 Germany targets Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, and Belgium. He takes all of them over.
1940 Italy declares war on France. Germany attacks France. France Surrenders.
1940 The Miracle of Dunkirk
1940 Japan advances into French Indochina and Dutch East Indies
1940 General Tojo Hideki gains support for war in Japan
December 7, 1941 Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor, US Enters war. 2,400 People Killed, 19 Ships destroyed
Dec. 10, 1941 Germany and Italy declare war on the US as Japan's Allies
June 1941 Germany ends raids on Britain and moves on to the Soviet Union
1941 US Congress passes the Lend-Lease act
1941 Nazi's support "the final solution to the Jewish problem" - genocide
1942 The tide strarts to turn on the Axis Powers.
1942 The Big Three -Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin- Meet in seceret
1942 Dwight Eisenhower takes command of US forces
1942 The British stop Rommel's advance in the battle of El Alamein
1942 American Navy and Airforce damage Japan's fleet in the Battle of Midway [island]
1942 The Battle of Stalingrad
1943 Rommel's army surrenders
1943 Allies defeat Italian forces in Sicily
1943 Stalingrad surrender
Early 1944 Soviet troops advance into Eastern Europe
June 6, 1944 D-Day
October 1944 Macarthur retakes the Philippines
December 1944 Germany launches a counterattack at the Battle of Bulge
May 8, 1945 V-E Day
July 1945 First atomic bomb tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico
August 6, 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
August 8, 1945 Soviet Union declares war on Japan
August 9, 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
August 10, 1945 Emperor Hirohito forces government to surrender
1945 WWII Ends, world learns of the Holocaust
1945 FDR dies
1945 Japan uses kamikaze fighters
1946 Stalin creates Communist goverments between the Soveit Union and Germany. This startes the cold war
1946 Churchill visits the US. He speaks of an "iron curtian", This became the symbol of the cold war.
1947 Truman Doctern limits Communism - containment
1948 Stalin tries to force Allied troops from Berlin
1949 NATO Founded

Post WW2 Effects "Cold War"

1940's Nationalist movements intensify throughout Africa
1945 WW2 ends
1945 The world is interdependent on communication and transportation
1945 Labour party
1946 Fourth French Republic
1946 Japan gets a new constitution
1947 Independent India and Pakistan created; UN partitions Palestine
1949 People's republic of China founded
1949 Feuds among Allies divide Allies
1949-1963 Konrad Adenauer
1950's Japanese "ecomomic" miracle begins
1950's Western economies boom, middle class expands
1950's Leftists parties support the idea of welfare states
1950-1954 Senator Joseph McCarthy charged many people as spies
1950-1954 Many Americans charged with having communist sympathies
1950-1975 Japan produces huge sums in GDP
1952 US occupation ends in Japan
1954 Brown v. Board of Education
1955 Warsaw Pact
1957 European Community formed
1957 Soveits launch Sputnik 1
1958 Mao launches the Great Leap Forward
1958 Fifth Republic
1959-1961 Thousands of Chinese starve to death
1960's Green Revolution
1960's - Today The world sees a rise in terrorism
1960's Many multinational corporations appear
1960's Many nations turn to privatization, or the selling of state owned industries to private investors
1960 Soviets withdraw all aid to China
1961 Berlin Wall
1961 John F. Kennedy becomes President
1962 France makes peace with the Algerians
1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
1964 Nyerere becomes president of Tanzania
1964-1982 The Soviet union suppresses the dissident, or people wo speak against the goverment
1964-1982 Leonid Brezhnev runs the Soviet Union and trie to reform
1964-1968 President Lyndon Johnson sent aid and troops to Southeast Asia
Late 1960's The Roman Catholic Church adopts liberation theology
1865 Martin Luther King Jr. leads the civil rights movement
1966 Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
1967 Americans torn over Vietnam War
1968 Richard Nixon elected President
1968 Youth revolts shake France
1969 Ostpolitik
1969 US lands the first man on the moon
1970 Nigerian civil war ends
1970's Many countries remain "nonaligned" to protect themselfs
1970's Acid rain becomes a global problem
1970's Violence escalates in Ireland
1970's The service industry movement
1971 Bangladesh breaks away from Pakistan
1971 China admited into the United Nations
1973 Worldwise oil Crisis
1973 European Union
1973 Britain, Denmark, and Ireland admitted into the EC
1974 Nixon negotiates American withdrawal from Vietnam
1975 Helsinki Agreement defines basic human rights
1975 North defeats South in Vietnam War
1975 Greece returns to civilian rule
1976 Mao Zedong dies in 1976
1979 Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
1979 Egypt makes peace with Israel; Iranian revolution begins
1979 OPEC raises prices, triggering a recession
1980's Zimbabwe begins economic and land reforms
1980's Computers become essential tools
1980's French Socialists gain power
1980's Goverment spending and tax cuts both increased the national deficit
1980's AIDS and ebola epidemic
1970's Strong femenist movement
1970's US and the Soveit Union support an era of detente (relaxaton)
1985 The Soveit Union calls for glasnost, or openness about the countries probelms
1985 The soviet union urged for perestroika, the restucturing of their goverment
1985 Government imposes state of emergency
1987 South Korea holds elections
1989 Reunification of Soviet Union begins
1990's Mikhail Gorbachev loosens Soviet grip on Eastern Europe
1990's Japan suffers an economic depression
1990's Growing computer network unites individuals, governments, and businesses across the world
1990's North Amerian Free Trade Association formed
1990 Germany reunited
1991 Soviet Union collapses
1992 United Nations Confrence on Enviroment
1992 civil war in Yugoslavia
1994 Palastinians gain limited self-rule
1994 Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa
1995 Severe earthquake damages Kobe
1997 Hong Kong reverts to China
1997 Adult Mammal cloned for the first time
1997 NATO expands in Europe
Oil Politics (Post Cold War)
1910 Japan annexes Korea
1910 South Africa wins self-rule from Britain
1911 Collapse of the Qing dynasty in China
1912 The ANC set up to oppose white domination
1930's Gandi ends the Caste system, freeing all harijan's
Late 1940's Green Revolution in India
1945 Japan occupied by US
1945 Taiwan reverts to China
1945 Jomo Kenyatta organizes political parties
1946 France sets out to regain Indochina
1946 A new constitution renounces war as a sovereign right
1946 Philippines gain freedom
1947 Independent India and Pakistan created
1947 UN partitions Palestine
1947 Mass migration of Hindus and Muslims
1947 Idependant India and Pakistan created; UN partions Palestine
1947-1964 Nehru dynasty
1947-1964 Jawaharlal Nehru is Prime minister of India
1948 PLO formed
1948 Africaner National party wins a majority in "whites-only" parliment
1948 War uproots 700,000 Arabs from Palestine
1948 Gandhi shot and killed
1949 People's Republic of China founded
1950 North Korea invades South Korea
1950 Japanese "economic miracle" begins
1950's Japan recovers from WWII
1950's Gamal Abdel Nasser
1950's Kurds devided amongst Turkey, Iran and Iraq
1950's Muslim Women return to hejab dress
1950's Arab nations turn to socialism
1950's LDP, or Liberal Democratic Party, dominates Japanese politics
1950's Stalin sends economic aid and technical experts to China to help Modernize
1950-1975 Japan's "econmic miracle"
1952 US and Japan sign peace treaty. Occupation of Japan is ended
1953 US helps Iran's shah oust Mosaddiq
1954 Conference in Geneva
1958 Mao launches the "great leap forward"
1959-1961 30 million Chinese thought to starve to death
1959-1975 Second phase of Vietnam War
Early 1960's UN peacekeepers help stop fighting in Zaire
1960's SWAPO uses armed forces to gain independance
1960's Japan emerges as an economic super power equal to the US
1960's Clashes between China and the Soveit Union ends their treaties
1963 Mobutu Sese Seko seizes control of Congo
1963 Africans set up the Organization of African Unity
1964 Mandela condemmed to life in prison
1964 US begins bombing targets in North Vietnam
1965 Minority government in Rhodesia led by Ian Smith
1965 Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines
1966 Mao launches "The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution"
1967 Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN)
1967 Israel wins the West Bank
1969 500,000 Americans serve in Vietnam
1970's Ethnic tensions spark guerilla war in Sir Lanka
1970's Japanese cars, camera's, and TV's are found throught world markets
1970's Turkey invades Cyprus due to Greek and Turkish conflicts
1970's OPEC rises oil prices, shock waves spread throught Japan's economy
1970's Gandhi signs treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union
1970 Nasser dies
1971 China son administration to te United Nations
1971 Bangledash breaks away from Pakistan
1971 Bangladesh breaks away from Pakistan
1973 Nixon begins withdrawing troops from Vietnam
1974 India tests nuclear devices
1974 Portugal army topples Caetano dictatorship
1975 North defeats south in Vetnam War
1975 Christians and Muslims fight for Beirut
1975 Angola and Mozambique celebrate independence
1975-1992 Rebels in Mozambique massacre tens of thousands of civilians
1976 Mao dies
1979 Full diplomatic recognition to China by the US finaly came
1979 Vietnam invades Cambodia
1979 Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
1979 Egypt makes peace with Israel
1979 Iranian revolution begins
1979 Sadat makes peace with Israel
1980's Japan is a major investor in China
1980's China institutes the one-child-per-family policy
1981 Deng Xiaoping controlls China
1981 Sadat assassinated
1983 Sikh separatists occupy Golden Temple
1980's African Nations setup a mixed economy
1986 Marcos holds elections
1987 South Korea holds Elections
1987 Palestinians children defy soldiers causing intifada
1989 Demonstrators in occupy Tiananmen Square
1989 Burma renamed Myanmar
1989 F.W. de Klerk accepts need to reform
1990's Vietnam introduces some free-market reforms
1990's Japanese leaders offer public regrets for the death and destruction in WWII
1990's LDP accused of corruption
1990's Japan's worst depression since the 1930's
Early 1990's Un supplies Somalians with food
1990's Julius Nyerere becomes the leader of Congo
1990 Mandela freed
1990 1/4 of all Africans live in towns and cities
1990 Nambia celebrates independence
1990 Japan is the world's largest donor nation, yet offers no soldiers
1991 Second Persian Gulf War
1991 Rajiv Ganhi assassinated
1991 Second Persian Gulf War
1992 BJP supports the destruction of a Mosque Ayatollah Khomeni
1992 Japanese soldiers join the UN peace keeping force
1993 UN peacekeepers supervise elections
1994 Palestinians gain limited self-rule
1994 Nelson Mandela inaugurates the first president of South Africa
1994 Nation's first multicultural elections
1994 Palestinians gain limited self-rule
1995 A severe earth quake badly damaged the city of Kobe
1997 Hong Kong reverts to China
1997 Deng Xiaoping's death